I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
BILL NYEEvolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
More Bill Nye Quotes
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Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice – cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
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If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population.
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The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a “viable” explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I’m not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.
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I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.
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Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
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